Creation of weird WINDOWS-related (sub)directories

Creation of weird WINDOWS-related (sub)directories

[Fergus]

Just noticed: strange directory %SystemDrive% created at root of Cygwin
installation:
As in:

/consoleX/%SystemDrive%
        /consoleX/%SystemDrive%/ProgramData
        /consoleX/%SystemDrive%/ProgramData/Microsoft
        /consoleX/%SystemDrive%/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows
        /consoleX/%SystemDrive%/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Caches
 
/consoleX/%SystemDrive%/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Caches/cversions.2.db
 
/consoleX/%SystemDrive%/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Caches/{69CFC75E-EC11-
4152-A489-8B4850814862}.2.ver0x0000000000000001.db
 
/consoleX/%SystemDrive%/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Caches/{6AF0698E-D558-
4F6E-9B3C-3716689AF493}.2.ver0x0000000000000001.db
 
/consoleX/%SystemDrive%/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Caches/{9BF0A9D6-626F-
4F67-8DFA-14BFC3D7213A}.2.ver0x0000000000000001.db
 
/consoleX/%SystemDrive%/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Caches/{DDF571F2-BE98-
426D-8288-1A9A39C3FDA2}.2.ver0x0000000000000001.db

Any ideas why? .. how to prevent?
Thank you!
Fergus
  


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Re: Creation of weird WINDOWS-related (sub)directories

[Marco Atzeri]

Am 25.09.2018 um 16:05 schrieb Fergus:
> Just noticed: strange directory %SystemDrive% created at root of Cygwin
> installation:
> As in:
>
> /consoleX/%SystemDrive%
>          /consoleX/%SystemDrive%/ProgramData
>          /consoleX/%SystemDrive%/ProgramData/Microsoft
>          /consoleX/%SystemDrive%/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows
>          /consoleX/%SystemDrive%/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Caches
>
> /consoleX/%SystemDrive%/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Caches/cversions.2.db
>
> /consoleX/%SystemDrive%/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Caches/{69CFC75E-EC11-
> 4152-A489-8B4850814862}.2.ver0x0000000000000001.db
>
> /consoleX/%SystemDrive%/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Caches/{6AF0698E-D558-
> 4F6E-9B3C-3716689AF493}.2.ver0x0000000000000001.db
>
> /consoleX/%SystemDrive%/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Caches/{9BF0A9D6-626F-
> 4F67-8DFA-14BFC3D7213A}.2.ver0x0000000000000001.db
>
> /consoleX/%SystemDrive%/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Caches/{DDF571F2-BE98-
> 426D-8288-1A9A39C3FDA2}.2.ver0x0000000000000001.db
>
> Any ideas why? .. how to prevent?
> Thank you!
> Fergus
>
>

I doubt it is due to a cygwin program.
"consoleX" does not appear in the package search
https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi



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Re: Creation of weird WINDOWS-related (sub)directories

[Fergus]

>> Just noticed: strange directory %SystemDrive% created at root of Cygwin
>> installation:
>> As in:
>> /consoleX/%SystemDrive%

> I doubt it is due to a cygwin program.
> "consoleX" does not appear in the package search
> https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi

Unintentionally I have confounded the discussion. The directory named
"consoleX" is my home-grown Cygwin root directory.
(Others' preferred locationname might be "cygwin" or "mycygwin" or
whatever.)
The directory %SystemDrive% occurs at the root of the Cygwin filesystem.
I cannot work out what activity has triggered it .. ..
Fergus


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Re: Creation of weird WINDOWS-related (sub)directories

[Marco Atzeri]

Am 25.09.2018 um 17:16 schrieb Fergus:
>>> Just noticed: strange directory %SystemDrive% created at root of Cygwin
>>> installation:
>>> As in:
>>> /consoleX/%SystemDrive%
>
>> I doubt it is due to a cygwin program.
>> "consoleX" does not appear in the package search
>> https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi
>
> Unintentionally I have confounded the discussion. The directory named
> "consoleX" is my home-grown Cygwin root directory.
> (Others' preferred locationname might be "cygwin" or "mycygwin" or
> whatever.)
> The directory %SystemDrive% occurs at the root of the Cygwin filesystem.
> I cannot work out what activity has triggered it .. ..
> Fergus

I will bet a Windows Programs as on CMD

   C:\Users\Marco>echo %SystemDrive%
   C:

so %SystemDrive%/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Caches
is likely C:/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Caches



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Re: Creation of weird WINDOWS-related (sub)directories

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Fergus!

>>> Just noticed: strange directory %SystemDrive% created at root of Cygwin
>>> installation:
>>> As in:
>>> /consoleX/%SystemDrive%

>> I doubt it is due to a cygwin program.
>> "consoleX" does not appear in the package search
>> https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi

> Unintentionally I have confounded the discussion. The directory named
> "consoleX" is my home-grown Cygwin root directory.
> (Others' preferred locationname might be "cygwin" or "mycygwin" or
> whatever.)
> The directory %SystemDrive% occurs at the root of the Cygwin filesystem.
> I cannot work out what activity has triggered it .. ..

Any script that did not resolve environments correctly, or mangled Windows and
Cygwin environment into a mess.
%SystemDrive% is supposed to point to the drive of your Windows installation
(f.e. "C:").

P.S.
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Tuesday, September 25, 2018 18:22:08

Sorry for my terrible english...


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Re: Creation of weird WINDOWS-related (sub)directories

[Hans-Bernhard Bröker]

Am 25.09.2018 um 17:16 schrieb Fergus:

> Unintentionally I have confounded the discussion. The directory named
> "consoleX" is my home-grown Cygwin root directory.
> (Others' preferred locationname might be "cygwin" or "mycygwin" or
> whatever.)

That does not explain anything, actually.  Cygwin's own root directory 
is always '/'.  The one you speak of would be the windows-side 
installation root directory (c:\cygwin or c:\cygwin64 by default), but 
that would never show up like that from inside cygwin.  I.e. while you 
do have

	c:\consoleX\bin

that will not show up as

	/consoleX/bin

but rather as

	/bin
or
	/cygdrive/c/consoleX/bin

> The directory %SystemDrive% occurs at the root of the Cygwin filesystem.
> I cannot work out what activity has triggered it .. ..

A look at the creation time of the directory might provide insightful.

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Re: Creation of weird WINDOWS-related (sub)directories

[L A Walsh]

On 9/25/2018 9:53 AM, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
> Am 25.09.2018 um 17:16 schrieb Fergus:
> 
>> Unintentionally I have confounded the discussion. The directory named
>> "consoleX" is my home-grown Cygwin root directory.
>> (Others' preferred locationname might be "cygwin" or "mycygwin" or
>> whatever.)
> 
> That does not explain anything, actually.  Cygwin's own root directory 
> is always '/'.  The one you speak of would be the windows-side 
> installation root directory (c:\cygwin or c:\cygwin64 by default), but 
> that would never show up like that from inside cygwin.  I.e. while you 
> do have
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	So the root of the cygwin drive is '/', so what would happen
if a cygwin program tried to expand a windows path, with a windows
variable in it, like '%SystemDrive%'....   Seems to me that
whatever that program is, it *IS* running under cygwin and using
a windows path with the win-var unexpanded. 

	If I understand correctly, the weird dir is at absolute
(from windows C:\) path:
C:/consoleX/%SystemDrive%/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Caches
or, inside cygwin, you see:
/%SystemDrive%/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Caches

yes?  Doesn't matter _that_ much, I'd just work
around it by moving it aside and creating a symlink in windows
from %SystemDrive% => C:\.  Hopefully whatever is creating
it won't delete the symlink.  If it does, you can retry
the command specifying /j to make a windows junction.
(in cmd.exe, you should be able to type mklink /h for help).

Note, in windows, mklink, the order is mklink <to> <from> (sorta
backwards from normal *nix conventions).

If you were curious and a bit daring, 
you could put an empty %systemdrive% directory 
there instead of the one it was using and make it read-only & set
the system attribute.  Then whatever is trying to write into
it should fail and hopefully you'll see an error message...

to set read-only and 
system with the attrib command try
attrib +r +s <filename>

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